Jose Saramago , Portuguese writer

said about Cliches, Doubt, Heroes, Literary, Literature, Uncertainty...

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"I never appreciated 'positive heroes' in literature. They are almost always cliches, copies of copies, until the model is exhausted. I prefer perplexity, doubt, uncertainty, not just because it provides a more 'productive' literary raw material, but because that is the way we humans really are."
- Jose Saramago

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